Saturday, July 28, 2012

First Read Aloud

The beginning of school promises to be hot, temperature wise (even though I'm enjoying the cooler temps of the Rockies--until tomorrow), so for an afternoon break we'll drink lemonade and listen to The Lemonade War.

This is a story about Evan and his sister.  They will both be entering 4th grade in the fall.  Sibling rivalry rears its ugly head when they both start a lemonade stand to see who can raise the most money.

Family values, friendships, and a little math computation will make this a great story to enjoy at the beginning of school...and 4th grade.

4 comments:

  1. This is too cool. We are going to use this book as our One School One Book read this year. Last year we did Ole Yeller.

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  2. My class loved that book last year. We read it when we are doing the Business unit (OCR unit), and with all the vocabulary words in there it was perfect! I was so excited when Scholastic had it for $1 last year so I could get a class set. :)

    Emily
    I Love My Classroom

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  3. I absolutely love this book! I've never used it as a read-aloud, but I'm seriously debating it!

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  4. I've always wondered whether or not this was worth being ordered thru Scholastic. Your back-to-school lemonade refreshments and read aloud sound perfect! :)

    p.s. The cursive alphabet needs to be posted because our district reorganized this past summer and created a "literacy handbook" part of which lists everything that needs to be evident in classrooms to support a "literate environment." The things we do to make others happy!

    Antonia @ forkin4th

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